Entertain and Kid

Entertain

Entertain verb - To cause (someone) to pass the time agreeably occupied.

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Kid and entertain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kid" instead a verb "Entertain".

Kid verb - To make jokes.

Usage example: he always kids around about his “wild and crazy” life as an accountant

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Entertain and kid are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Entertain" instead a verb "Kid".

Mickey Mouse winds up with a kid this way in the cartoon Mickey Plays Papa (a cartoon which notably featured Mickey dressing as his muse The Tramp to entertain the child).

Source: Doorstop Baby
Basically, they aren't saddled with a bag of Villain Balls so much as they're expert jugglers, using them to entertain rather than as signs of stupidity (it is a kid's show, after all).

Source: Harmless Villain
More happily, Abram also has occasion to entertain the very same angels, who show up to tell him that, after some decades of trying, he and Sarai are finally going to have a kid.

Source: Sacred Hospitality

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